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SearchDay March 3, 2011 Today's Top Stories Let Google Know How the Algorithm Change Affected Your Site Yesterday, we asked if Google was listening to its users, following the rollout of its latest algorithm update targeting "low quality" sites that hit some sites hard and helped others. In what is the closest Google has come to admitting some sites have been unfairly punished in the SERPs, Google ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Mar 3, 2011 21-Day Link Builder Relationship Challenge As link builders, we must give in order to receive. Here are three general categories of relationship-building "gives" that will help you create a worthy relationship foundation and attract an unfair share of links. Jeremy Bencken  |  Full story  |  Print version RSS More from SEW's Team of Experts Lifting Conversion Through Curation and Badging Badges call attention to specific items on a web page. Curation determines which items to badge. Here's why curation with badges boosts conversion rates. Stephen Cobb  |  Full story  |  Print version Separating Trend from Fad with QR Codes in Social Media A common challenge in the world of social media marketing is separating trends from fads. Today, I'm proclaiming "trend" regarding the use of Quick Response (QR) codes for social media. Jason Cormier  |  Full story  |  Print version 5 Money-Saving Strategies for Localized Websites How microsites, subdomains, duplication, post-edited machine translation, and competing in foreign markets will increase your ROI and save you more money. Christian Arno  |  Full story  |  Print version Adobe & Conductor Team-Up to Monitor SEO ROI Alongside PPC Adobe SearchCenter has been updated to integrate organic search data, such that ROI from SEO campaigns can be measured directly alongside PPC data in a single interface. The combined intelligence should enable Adobe SearchCenter customers to maximise revenue from both channels by making it easier to identify and test complimentary ... Jonathan Allen  |  Full story  |  Mar 3, 2011 SortPrice.com Say Retailers Listing 60% More Products on Facebook SortPrice, a shopping app that enables online retailers to deliver an e-commerce experience directly through Facebook has posted data that suggests that F-commerce is a trend that retailers are embracing. SortPrice has built Facebook stores for more than 1,500 retailers and their commentary on their data says "2010 was the biggest ... Jonathan Allen  |  Full story  |  Mar 3, 2011 AdWords Call Metrics Now Offers Deeper Call Reports Google AdWords now shows more detailed reports on every call your campaign has received with call metrics enabled. This includes the call's start time, end time, duration, status (missed or received), and area code. AdWords call metrics, introduced in November, allows advertisers to ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Mar 3, 2011 Japanese Doll Festival Google Doodle Today the Japanese are celebrating the annual Japanese Doll Festival, a tradition during which families -- especially those with young daughters -- pray for the happiness and healthy growth of girls. Google Japan is likewise celebrating, having posted a special Doodle. As part ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Mar 3, 2011 Error! Error! Google's New Fail Page Features Broken Googlebot Google is serving a new custom 404 page when you stumble across a page that doesn't exist. It tells you: "404. That's an error. The requested URL was not found on this server. That's all we know." Also, Googlebot is in pieces, no doubt symbolic of a broken link. ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Mar 3, 2011 Google Acquires Security Firm Zynamics Same Day Android Apps Hit by Malware Google yesterday acquired German software company Zynamics, a company that specializes in reverse-engineering and analysis tools. Seems like the acquisition came just in time, because only a few hours later, 21 free apps were pulled from the Android Marketplace due to malware. Google ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Mar 3, 2011 Google AdSense No Longer Facebook Approved Advertising Option Facebook's list of preferred advertisers went into effect Monday, and Google AdSense isn't on the list. This new list prohibits developers from making revenue from their Facebook applications via AdSense. As of Monday, Facebook began limiting developers to only working with approved advertisers ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Mar 3, 2011 3 Ways To Get More Followers Via #SESuk Tweetwall So SES London was a blast wasn't it? More parties than any single year and a new venue slap bang in the heart of London should have given you plenty of opportunities to network with the buzzing search marketing industry in the UK. If you forgot to print any business cards, ... Jonathan Allen  |  Full story  |  Mar 3, 2011 Recent Forum Posts Competitor Website Analysis Can you tell me that which points I have to consider while doing competitor site analysis? How I can do effective competitor website analysis? Join the discussion  |  Mar 2, 2011 Google want to stop crawl my websit how to stop google to crawl the website. But bing want to crawl it... how to do this.. if i use robot.txt no search engine will come to crawl. i need bing alone to crawl my website Join the discussion  |  Mar 1, 2011 redirects on homepage issues hi there, my website has a daily deal added to it via a shop software package. (bit like the Groupon business) To help with the tracking, it was deciced that instead of changing the homepage deal and it referring back to GA on date ranges that we redirected away from the ... Join the discussion  |  Feb 28, 2011 OK to host a .org.nz website in the US? Hi, Does anyone know if Google just uses the country part of the domain (site.co.nz for example) to decide if that site is in a particular country or does it use the IP address of the website hosting? The reason why is I'm tempted to use a US hosting company (because they're ... Join the discussion  |  Feb 26, 2011 Search News Around The Web Insights from Google's Chief Business Officer - Marketing Pilgrim Google Patches 19 Chrome Bugs Before Hacking Contest Begins - PCWorld Decide what the world sees when it searches for you - Google Social Web Blog Showcasing photos from people you care about - Google Photos Blog Yahoo!'s Sweet Sixteen! - Yahoo Advertising Blog Our Sweet 16 - Yodel Anecdotal Yahoo Search BOSS Technical Documentation Released - Yahoo Search Blog Top 25 U.S. Online Properties, January 2011 - ClickZ Hipmunk Hotels - hipmunk Blog Search Engine Optimization When Best Practices Lead to Miserable Failures - SEO Book.com Google: The Risk And The Opportunity - SEO Book.com How to Choose a New Domain - Michael Gray How SEO Agencies Boost ROI for In-House Marketers - Bruce Clay How Many Words In ALT Text For Google, Yahoo & Bing? - Hobo How does Google handle "not found" pages that don't return a 404? - GoogleWebmasterHelp YouTube Channel Can I specify the canonical of all of a product's review pages as a single URL? - GoogleWebmasterHelp YouTube Channel How To Tell Bing Your Website's Country and Language - Bing Webmaster Center Blog Search Advertising Google "Farmer" Update: PPC Data and Impact - Rimm-Kaufman Group Automating The Ad Test Visualization Tool - Certified Knowledge Stat of the Day: Bing Not Making a Dent in Google's Share of Search Revenues - eMarketer Earn additional revenue from AdSense for search - Inside AdSense Dig deeper into call metrics with new detailed call reports - Inside AdWords March Madness: How to Be Madly Successful with Your Team Merchandise, Travel and Party Supply PPC Campaigns - adCenter Blog Social Media Marketing Facebook Now Powers Comments All Around the Web - ReadWriteWeb Almost half the UK is now on Facebook - The Next Web Tracking 'Promoted Trends' : Twitter Draws Diverse Advertisers - ClickZ Twitter Big on Smaller Advertisers - The Wall Street Journal Link Building Can inbound links get my site penalized? - Distilled Local & Mobile Search Google issues ultimatum to Yelp: free content or no search indexing - The Telegraph In-App Payments for Android Still Coming in Q1 2011 - ReadWriteWeb Android developers form 'union' to protest Google policies - The Next Web Amazon to take on Google's Android Marketplace with an app store of its own - Los Angeles Times Saab To Power In-Car Infotainment With Google's Android (Video) - CrunchGear Mobile editing in Google Docs now in 45 languages - Google Mobile Blog Google adds Honeycomb sculpture to its lawn, celebrating latest Android release - Los Angeles Times Play Google Streetview Zombie Apocalypse! - Wonderment Blog Introducing Flickr for Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7! - Yahoo Mobile Blog International Search Something old, something new: Technology meets tradition for the Royal Wedding - Google European Developer Blog Bing Goes Live in France - Official Microsoft Blog Yahoo in talks on $8 billion Japan exit: sources - Reuters Chinese Twitter-like Service Passes 100 Million Users - PCWorld Video Marketing Why Video Advertising Needs to Dump Impressions and Move to 'Cost Per View' - Advertising Age Social Video Optimization Vs. Video Search Optimization: Which is Better? - ReelSEO SES Conference & Expo Meet up at SES New York City! - AdWords Agency Blog Successful Site Architecture for SEO [SES London 2011] - SEOmoz Webcasts Upcoming Events White Papers 10 Ways Search Retargeting Will Transform Your Business In 2011 Thursday, March 3, 2011 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST "A Social Media Moment" with Jeff Hayzlett and Mike Grehan TBD 9:00am EST / 2:00pm GMT SES New York March 21-25, 2011 SES Shanghai 24-25 May 2011 SES Toronto June 13-15, 2011 SES San Francisco August 15-19, 2011 SES Chicago November 14-18, 2011 © Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC. 2011 All rights reserved. 120 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10271 Data protection ClickZ is contacting you at the following address - getsolat.asep@blogger.com If you prefer not to receive this email, please unsubscribe. Need to change your newsletter subscription preferences and personal information? Update your details. 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